
The HVAC Grapevine
A fun environment where you can listen and learn from industry leading experts about the latest news while they tell their experiences from inside the HVAC & building science trades.
Episodes
18 episodes
Are you down with GWP refrigerants?
In this episode, we invite Ty Branaman onto the show. Ty is a HVAC guru! There is lots of discussion around A2L's today and not as much education widespread as we would like. The last thing we need is a growing fear of technic...
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1:11:09

Hydronics with Michael Housh
In this episode we talk about residential hydronics with none other than our good friend Michael Housh. Listen in as Housh brings insight and knowledge on how residential hydronics are designed, installed, and controlled.
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58:51

HVAC in production homes
In this episode the Grapevine hosts speak with Cody Brasseal who own his own HVAC company and focuses on doing work in the production home market. He is someone that we admire because of his ability to conquer the production home subcontr...
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1:05:21

Blower Doors with Steve Rogers
In this episode we talk everything blower doors! Residential, commercial, and multi-family. You got questions, Steve Rogers has answers! Listen and be prepared to press the pause button, we play a fast pace Q&A of infiltra...
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53:46

What is an air upgrade?
In this episode we discuss what an #airupgrade™ is with David Richardson from the National Comfort Institute. Along for the ride was our good friend and super star trainer, Ty Branaman. Listen along as these air flow nerds drop tech...
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1:17:11

Efficiency
In this episode we discuss efficiency, but this is not a discussion geared towards dollars and cents, but rather a discussion of performance, comfort, and longevity. Yes, this will lead to savings, but there may be more to gain from effic...
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1:02:36

Indoor Air Quality - Front & Center #2
In this episode, we return with Kevin Hart, who is the founder and CEO of Haven IAQ. We continue to deep dive into IAQ and how critical it is to get measurements correct. Listen in and learn what manufacturers have to think about wh...
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Indoor Air Quality - Front & Center
In this episode, we speak with Kevin Hart, who is the founder and CEO of Haven IAQ.Kevin plays an indoor air quality game with the hosts which was a neat and interesting way to think about IAQ. Challenge yourself and play along! At th...
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1:03:45

The who? What? Where? When? Why? of CFM/Ton
In this episode the crew discusses CFM/Ton. Listen and learn as discuss what matters about setting the airflow on your indoor unit for cooling. As an added bonus, which costed us a great deal of money, we were able to get Johnny Sup...
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Multimeters with Louise Kellar
In this episode we discuss multimeters with Louise Kellar from UEI. Listen and learn as your hosts pick the brain of Louise as she shares some things you may never have known about multimeters.
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1:02:08

Let's talk time.
In this episode we discuss time from many different points of view while being in the HVAC trade. Today was Mother's Day, and the wife of Chris Hughes, mother of 3, joins us and gets to share her TOP 5 pet peeves of what its like be...
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1:02:09

Is your house killing you?
In this episode we talk with AJ and Becky Callegan about their HVAC journey to build high performing HVAC systems and looking at the big picture and not just the box. This is a story of being tested to the limit and coming back in a big b...
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1:13:02

Code Talk
In this episode Michael and Chris talk about HVAC building codes and how homeowners can be aware of what they are getting from contractors. This show was an open mic night! A few guests popped in to tell us their stories!
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1:07:17

BetterHVAC
Are you looking for more direction inside of the HVAC industry? In this episode we talk about the meaning and direction of #BetterHVAC with Bill Spohn and Ben Reed. Listen closely and you may find insight that could help you on your...
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1:03:05

Let's talk about data. Integrity, Collection, Analysis
On this episode of The HVAC Grapevine, Rachel Kaiser joins the team and educates us on how to handle our HVAC data.
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1:02:31

A different way to do Manual J.
In this episode, the HVAC Grapevine crew speaks with Shelby Breger from Conduit about how their software allows an end user to scan a home to complete a ACCA Manual J load calculation with LiDAR technology.
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